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UGANDA: New DP Leader

UGANDA: New DP Leader The party is undecided whether to join the opposition coalition or go it alone. Democratic Party (DP) delegates have elected Norbert Mao as the party president, replacing Mr John Ssebaana Kizito at the party’s national conference in Mbale. The DP thus finally brought the curtain down on four months of internal wrangling that has left the party split down the middle with a section of the old guard refusing to recognise the proceedings in Mbale. The leader of the country’s oldest party now has to make one important decision: go it alone in the 2011 presidential election with, or to throw in their lot with the Inter‐Party Co‐operation ( IPC ), a loose coalition of four other opposition parties. Until now, the DP has steadfastly resisted calls to join grouping. Under the IPC umbrella, the Forum for Democratic Change ( FDC ), Uganda People’s Congress ( UPC ), the Conservative Party and Justice Forum have agreed to field a joint candidate to face President Yoweri Museveni who is most likely to run as candidate for the ruling National Resistance Movement ( NRM ). Mr Mathias Nsubuga was retained as the party Secretary General while Mr Issa Kikungwe was http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Wiley
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© Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2010
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1467-825X
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10.1111/j.1467-825X.2010.03131.x
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The party is undecided whether to join the opposition coalition or go it alone. Democratic Party (DP) delegates have elected Norbert Mao as the party president, replacing Mr John Ssebaana Kizito at the party’s national conference in Mbale. The DP thus finally brought the curtain down on four months of internal wrangling that has left the party split down the middle with a section of the old guard refusing to recognise the proceedings in Mbale. The leader of the country’s oldest party now has to make one important decision: go it alone in the 2011 presidential election with, or to throw in their lot with the Inter‐Party Co‐operation ( IPC ), a loose coalition of four other opposition parties. Until now, the DP has steadfastly resisted calls to join grouping. Under the IPC umbrella, the Forum for Democratic Change ( FDC ), Uganda People’s Congress ( UPC ), the Conservative Party and Justice Forum have agreed to field a joint candidate to face President Yoweri Museveni who is most likely to run as candidate for the ruling National Resistance Movement ( NRM ). Mr Mathias Nsubuga was retained as the party Secretary General while Mr Issa Kikungwe was

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series – Wiley

Published: Mar 1, 2010

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